Isolation and Functional Characterization of the Novel Clostridium botulinum Neurotoxin A8 Subtype
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Isolation and Functional Characterization of the Novel Clostridium botulinum Neurotoxin A8 Subtype
Botulism is a severe neurological disease caused by the complex family of botulinum neurotoxins (BoNT). Based on the different serotypes known today, a classification of serotype variants termed subtypes has been proposed according to sequence diversity and immunological properties. However, the relevance of BoNT subtypes is currently not well understood. Here we describe the isolation of a nov...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS ONE
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116381